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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

27 June - RSS SnapShot ! - Pt III

Protest, 26th November 2007, opposing the invi...Protest, 26th November 2007, opposing the invitation of David Irving and Nick Griffin to address the Oxford Union. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: Demonstrators make their feelings cle...English: Demonstrators make their feelings clear about the BBC's decision to allow Nick Griffin to appear on Question Time. See (Photo credit: Wikipedia)bnp leafletbnp leaflet (Photo credit: The Untrained Eye)LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 08: British Nation...LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 08: British National Party (BNP) members stand outside the High Court holding a placard supporting party leader Nick Griffin on November 8, 2010 in London, England. The BNP are applying to get rulings from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who say that the party's constitution is racist, thrown out. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #87- The Balochistan Nexus
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to discuss Balochistan, a region rich in oil reserves and mineral deposits in Southwest Asia bordering Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a nexus at which diametrically opposing strategic interests converge. He talks about US suppo ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 31, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical an ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Welcomes New Partner Eric D ...
    “Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War” We are proud to announce the addition of a new partner to our team here at Boiling Frogs Post. Please welcome Eric Draitser: Eric Draitser- Partner Analyst & Producer Eric Draitser is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. He is the ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Bernie Sanders reacts to: Supreme Court Reject ...
    "I am extremely disappointed but not surprised that the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Montana court ruling that would have allowed limits on campaign contributions.
  • Lewis Lapham: Will Wonders Never Cease?
    It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot John Trithemius of Sponheim, a fifteenth-century scholar and mage, devised a set of incantations to carry "messages instantaneously... through the agency of the stars and planets who rule time."
  • Uranus and Pluto 2012: Mid-'60s come of age, d ...
    As of June 24, some of the most powerful astrology of the mid-1960s has begun to come of age. How has the world changed since then? What do we need to do now to fulfill the promise seeded in 1965 and 1966?
  • Sandusky Child Abuser Sickness but Americans M ...
    The same majority of Americans that wish to see Sandusky locked up and the key thrown away, are insufficiently interested in the ongoing ten years of collateral murder of great numbers children in Afghanistan and never imagine those responsible should be arrested like Sandusky. Crimes should be ...
  • Angela Merkel should be asked to leave office ...
    The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has failed to learn what was good about the economic systems in either the former East or the former West Germanies. This failure is killing Europe and the Eurozone.

Switchboard

  • How Clean Is This Beach?
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City When I travel for work--NRDC has offices across the country--I like to try to get out and take a swim. It's a nice break from suing polluters. But I'm always wondering: How clean is that beach in Santa ...
  • Testing the Waters at Ohio Beaches
    Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago My husband’s family is from the Cleveland area, so coming to Northeast Ohio always feels like a homecoming for me.  And, because I think of it as my (second) home, I’m excited to be i ...
  • Keystone 1 Accident: A Geyser of Tar Sands Oil ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC On an early morning in May 2011, North Dakota farmer Bob Banderet was walking out of his farm house with his daughter to check on some calves when off in the distance they noticed somethin ...
  • The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Fore ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Back in February I posted about a surprising development: Despite the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010, U.S. carbon pollution emissions and projec ...
  • Beach Report Shows Why We Need New Protections ...
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Happy Testing the Waters Day!  Today, NRDC releases its annual report on beach closings and swimming advisories and information on monitored water quality at thousands of beaches across th ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Obligatory Supreme Court Predictions
    The Guardian asked me for one and, as Bill James once said, “I have learned from experience that these people do not appreciate a straight answer — to wit, how the hell would I know,” so I made one.   I’m the outlier on the panel.   Of course, if there are 5 votes to stri ...
  • On the Latest Eighth Amendment Cases
    This week’s decisions forbidding states from applying mandatory life sentences to individuals under 18 have been well-covered elsewhere, but I had a couple points to make. First, from the opening paragraph of the dissent Alito angrily read aloud from the bench: Even a 17½-year-old who sets ...
  • The Class War Has a Name: Globalization
    Jonathan Martin has a pretty good piece at Politico about why the Democratic Party has gone AWOL in the class war. As the Republicans look to return us to the Gilded Age, both Democratic politicians and the grassroots seem unable or unwilling to respond. Occupy Wall Street was a moment of hope a ...
  • Concerning Brett Kimberlin, Patrick Frey, Aaro ...
    As you can tell from the fact that I wrote one post in May (albeit quite a good one), wrapping up the school year took the majority of my time and energy, so some stories slipped through the cracks. Let me rephrase that: some stories were too complicated for me to understand in the time [...]
  • Platform of the Texas Republican Party
    The Texas Republican Party announced its 2012 platform. This is otherwise known as the standard Republican policy narrative circa 2015. It is very special. So special that no one can really explore the whole thing without losing their mind. Here’s 11 brilliant moments. But there are so man ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Chinese company claims victory in false-rumor suit
    A Chinese fruit juice company that had sued an investment management firm for allegedly spreading rumors in order to short its stock has settled its libel claims.
  • Spike in accounting fraud class actions attrib ...
    Securities class action filings involving accounting fraud allegations jumped during 2011, following one of the steepest declines in recent years, according to a report by Cornerstone Research.
  • Nova Law wins round with professor fired over ...
    A former tenured professor at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center is fighting to get his job back after university administrators fired him amid concerns that he might bring a gun to campus.
  • In Boston speech, Holder discusses Arizona cas ...
    While delivering the keynote address at a Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office symposium on protecting civil rights, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. made reference to one very hectic day coming up this week.
  • Appeals court gives EPA a resounding win in gr ...
    In a major win for the government, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld regulations limiting the emission of greenhouse gases June 26, concluding that the Environmental Protection Agency's interpretation of the Clean Air Act is "unambiguously correct."

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

  • EPA Proposes Changes for 2010 Cement Standards
    In response to a federal court ruling and data from industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing changes to its 2010 air standards for the Portland cement manufacturing industry.
  • C and O Cucina Presents The Spirit of Italy
    I ordered Lobster Bisque soup which is prepared daily with lobster bits. Wow, for $8.95 that's a whole meal. It's enough to easily feed two. Sometimes my eyes are bigger then my stomach.
  • Manipuri Militant Caught in Guwahati
    Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and CRPF launched a search operation at the Guwahati railway station and discovered a KYKL militant.
  • Supreme Court Deals Obama Administration Key D ...
    It was a severe setback for an administration that has been reeling with scandal and disappointments all month. All eyes are now focused on the court's ruling this Thursday on the controversial and highly unpopular Obamacare.
  • ALIPAC Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling on Dete ...
    Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is celebrating the decision of the US Supreme Court announced this morning which upholds the key component of Arizona's enforcement only approach to deterring illegal immigration!

environment 360

  • BP Oil Spill Accelerated Erosion of Louisiana' ...
    The 2010 BP oil spill hastened the loss of Louisiana’s already fragile salt marshlands, a new study says. In a comparison of erosion rates at three healthy marsh sites and three areas affected by the oil spill, University of Florida scientists found that oil from the spill coated thick grasses o ...
  • Foreign ‘Land Grabs’ Scooping up Key Agricultu ...
    From 2000 to 2010, foreign investors bought or leased roughly 270,000 square miles of prime agricultural land, most of it in the developing world, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute. Half of the land was CIAT in Africa, acquired by investors from China, the Middle East, and ...
  • Mountain Forests in Southwest U.S. Failing to ...
    Mountain forests scorched by wildfires in the southwestern U.S. in recent years have failed to regenerate as forest ecosystems because of rising temperatures, decreased precipitation, and human intervention, according to a U.S. researcher. Speaking at an environmental conference this week in Col ...
  • Elevated Ozone Levels Trigger Heart Risks for ...
    Exposure to ozone at levels sometimes present in the world’s most polluted cities can trigger potentially dangerous changes to human cardiovascular systems, according to a new study. In a series of tests conducted Wikimedia Commons Mexico City smog on 23 healthy adults, scientists found evi ...
  • Birth of Sumatran Rhino Offers Hope for Endang ...
    Conservationists in Indonesia say a female Sumatran rhino gave birth to a healthy male calf at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, offering International Rhino Foundation Ratu new hope for one of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Following two miscarriages and a ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Green Gods: New Religion and Eco-Faith
    Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city of Rio is bathing the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer (Christo Redentor) in green light. Is there a push to create a new religion from old ideas, marrying devotion to god(s) ...
  • Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered
    A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces. Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It s ...
  • Washington’s 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Sec ...
    The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are. It’s hardly a secret that the government overclassifies basic information about what it do ...
  • The World’s Largest Chocolate Sculpture - Anci ...
    To celebrate our 30th anniversary, Qzina Specialty Foods, has broken a Guinness World Record for building the largest chocolate sculpture. The sculpture models an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18,239 pounds, far surpassing the previous record set in Italy in 2010 by more than 7,500 pounds. Qzi ...
  • Revealed: CIA secretly operates on Syrian bord ...
    American secret service operatives are distributing illegal assault rifles, anti-tank rocket launchers and other ammunition to Syrian opposition, the New York Times reports. But due to some rebels’ links to Al Qaeda, the CIA’s task is precarious. ­The paper reports that for weeks now, officers b ...

Russia Today

  • Beware of the bull
    Thousands of spectators have turned out in Pakistan’s Punjab province for the traditional oxen race, held as part of a three-day festival. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Wiki founder fights against British student’s ...
    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has got over 70,000 signatures on a petition to save a British student from extradition to the US over copyright infringement charges. British MPs say the treaty as a whole is unfair and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iran, Saudi Arabia not invited to UN summit of ...
    Iran and Saudi Arabia have not been invited to UN summit of world powers on Syria as peace negotiator Kofi Annan convenes the meeting in Geneva the coming weekend. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Out of prison through books: Brazilian inmates ...
    From now on reading will help to shorten a sentence for Brazilian prisoners. But it is not all that simple: Brazilian penitentiary authorities have thought of a number of shrewd limitations. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Embargo fallout: Europe may get away clean by ...
    Despite fears, EU’s looming cut off of Iranian oil exports hasn’t caused a skyrocket in prices. But it has pushed Tehran closer to Asian economies, which is part of a greater shift in energy industry, says Pulitzer... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Western ‘Peace Movement’ sits by i ...
    There is a lot more going on here than Syria just shooting down a Turkish military jet, which is now being used as an excuse to support OVERT US allied military intervention against the Syrian government. In fact, the key COVERT war has been taking place along the Syrian-Turkish border for month ...
  • The persecution continues against the West&#82 ...
    Gosh, I wish I had a penny each for each American moron who has told me in my lifetime that I definitely live in a democracy according to them. I would be a billionaire if I had that money! And thinking now about the West’s two most important political dissidents at this moment. See Julian ...
  • Putin to Israel- if you go ahead and start a w ...
    The message is very simple that Putin has carried to Israel during his visit. It is the exact same one he gave directly to Obama at the G20 summit in Mexico last week. …. ‘Don’t start your war!’ Is China solid in support of Putin’s position for Russia? Here is how i ...
  • ‘Operation Cross Country’- the US ...
    The supposed campaign to rescue child sex slaves is now a lynchpin of the US National Security State. Feeding into it are all the Right Wing Republican leaning churches, the more hysterical of the left overs of the men-are-the-enemy ‘feminist’ sexual prude crowd, the Pentagon, the FB ...
  • Drone cartoon figure by Fiore
    OK, intermission and time for a video cartoon! So we take you to youtube where first you get assaulted by one of the campaign messages, (perhaps for the Commander in Drone himself)… then the Dronetopia cartoon show comes on- Dronetopia ____ENJOY!____ I want some popcorn, Mom!

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Alex Jones Show Complete (Commercial Free) Tue ...
    Published on Jun 27, 2012 by AlexJonesComplete Tuesday June 26th 2012 2 Guests Today - Jesse Ventura, Billy Corgan. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan talks with Alex in an explosive taped interview. Corgan and Jones cover a variety of issues, from the police state to GMO and more. ...
  • Former Iowa Governor Chet Culver Supports Arch ...
    Holly Berkowitz in Iowa City, IA, comments on the petition entitled, "President Obama: 9/11 Families Ask You to Watch “9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out”: Thank you so much, Governor Culver for forwarding this petition. I'm surprised it took so long for many to notice. The eviden ...
  • Oklahoma City: Tim McVeigh & Dr. Jolyon West - ...
    Clip from the film A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 released this past December. Related: On This Day in History 1995: The U.S. Government Allowed the Oklahoma City Bombing to Happen Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before OKC Bombing Red Ice Radio - A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City bombing 199 ...
  • Random Ranting
    1. Pat Curley has attacked me for being lazy: I think it's time to get off your duff and let people know that you've begun to worry that your eight YouTube videos and your "over fifty articles" might be wrong. James and I make an effort to correct the occasional posts where we make a mistake ( ...
  • 9/11: Jesse Ventura vs FOX News
    Published on Jun 20, 2012 by TheTruthseeker55 Patriot Jesse Ventura on 'Fox & Friends' back in 2010 FAUX News - faux/fō/ Adjective: 1. Artificial or imitation: "faux pearls". 2. Not genuine; fake or false: "her faux New York accent". View the original (full-length) here: http://www. ...

Fooducate

  • Whole Grains Demystified [Bread miniseries par ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Welcome to part 2 of our miniseries. In part 1, we provided ground rules for choosing healthy bread. When discussing bread, there tends to be a confusion around the terms whole grain and whole wheat. We&#8217 ...
  • 4 Ground Rules for Choosing Healthy Bread [Bre ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Bread is a staple of the western world, something many of us consume daily, if not several times a day. There is nothing quite like the scent of a freshly baked loaf. The pleasure of a warm slice of bread and ...
  • FRS Healthy Slim – BS PR for a BS Product
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! We recently received an email pitch from FRS, a beverage company affiliated with Lance Armstrong, Tim Tebow and other super sport stars. We decided this would be a good opportunity to conduct an exercise in c ...
  • Kids’ Cereal: Slight Improvement. Long Road St ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity recently released its 2012 report entitled Cereal F.A.C.T.S. Three years after their original report on the state of advertising to children, researchers repor ...
  • Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate – Chances are You’ll ...
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The above humorous poster, spotted on Food Renegade‘s Facebook page, immediately led us to explore said ingredient. Turns out its not as bad as one would think. Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate is an additive ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • India bans controversial tourist resort but fa ...
    Tourists who use the Andaman Trunk Road for ‘human safaris’ are exploiting India’s Jarawa tribe. © Survival The controversial tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India’s government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffe ...
  • ‘We understand sustainability better than anyo ...
    Brazilian Indians unite at the Rio+20 summit © Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Thousands of Brazilian Indians united in Rio this week, to make their voices heard at the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainability and the environment. Sonia Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, said, ‘We have come here to raise ...
  • Guarani community in Brazil could get $83m award
    Guarani man. A Guarani community in Brazil could receive $83m for 'moral and material' damages © Fiona Watson/Survival A public prosecutor in Brazil is asking the government to pay $83m to a Guarani Indian community as compensation for ‘moral and material’ damages. The community, ...
  • ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ appeals for Rio ...
    Davi Kopenawa Yanomami says Brazil can save the Awá tribe. © Survival The ‘Dalai Lama of the rainforest’ is urgently appealing to governments attending Rio+20 to help save the earth’s most threatened tribe, by pressuring Brazil to stamp out illegal logging. Speaking ahead of the UN confere ...
  • South Africa’s indigenous ‘icon’ Dawid Kruiper ...
    Dawid Kruiper was considered an 'icon' and key representative of the Bushmen of the southern Kalahari. © Bill Kemp/Strata 360 Dawid Kruiper, a traditional leader of the Khomani Bushmen of South Africa has died, aged 76. He will perhaps be best remembered for his determination to ...

Greg Palast

  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
  • The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
    by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...
  • Palast London Events Schedule
    Monday 25th June at 6.30pm Blackwell's Charing Cross Road - talk and book signing 30 minute talk followed by book signing. This is a free event but you should email events.london@blackwell.co.uk to reserve a place. Blackwell's  100 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0JG Nearest tube: Leicester ...
  • Greg Palast and Ted Rall in Sag Harbor Live!
    Election Games: Billionaires and Ballot Bandits Canio's Cultural Cafe and WPKN Radio 89.5 FM present: Friday June 22, 6:30PM - 8PM at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 977 Sag Harbor - Bridgehampton Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY. The meeting house is midway between Bridgehampton and Sag H ...
  • How Bain Capital helped BPblow up the Deepwate ...
    Review by Greg Palast, for FireDogLake.com Today, Saturday, from 5pm to 7pm, Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic, will be hosting an electronic salon - an open discussion with Mike Magner, author of Poisoned Legacy: the Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power (St. Martin's Press). Join Mike and I ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Tea Party Joins Canary Party in Opposing Vacci ...
    By Kent Heckenlively In a sign of increasing political strength, the Canary Party has achieved an alliance with the East Bay Tea Party, one of California’s largest tea party groups, on the issue of AB2109, a measure sponsored by California...
  • Benedict Carey's "Autism Research Hindered by ...
    By Anne Dachel June 26, 2012, the New York Times published the story, Autism Research Hindered by Scarcity of Brain Samples, by Benedict Carey. HERE It was about the loss of 150 brain specimens used for research due to a...
  • Harry’s Inquest Book: the Death of Harry Horne ...
    By John Stone Readers of Age of Autism have followed this tragic story since Harry’s death two and a half years ago. Now his parents, Jennifer (Jennie) Horne-Robert and Keith Roberts, have published a second e-book documenting his life and...
  • Write the President of Cameroon to Defend Dr. ...
    A recent article in Nature shows that the vaccine industry has been closing ranks against Dr. Luc Montagnier ever since his brilliant lecture at AutismOne last month. In particular, 35 Nobel Laureates led by one who sells commercial products to...
  • “Protocol 007”: Merck Scientists Accuse Compan ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill At its core, the 55-page whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia makes one stunning allegation – that pharmaceutical giant Merck traded children’s health to protect monopoly profits, and engaged in...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...
  • Behind the GM Wheat Trial
    Can one still believe Rothamsted’s GM wheat is a mere experiment with no commercial objectives in mind? Should taxpayer’s money be hijacked to support GM development for corporate agribusiness without regard for potential damage to health and environment?
  • Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
    A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. Whi ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Over 150 natives occupy Amazon dam constructio ...
    PhysOrg – More than 150 indigenous people are occupying one of the construction sites for the huge Belo Monte hydro-electric dam across the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, a local spokesman said Tuesday. “They have for the past five days been occupying the Pimentel site where th ...
  • Thai ‘Red Shirts’ stage mass prote ...
    AFP – Tens of thousands of supporters of Thailand’s “Red Shirt” protest movement staged a mass rally in Bangkok on Sunday, police said, amid renewed political tensions in the troubled kingdom. The Reds, who are broadly loyal to fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, mark ...
  • China’s UAVs capable of disrupting U.S. ...
    Focus Taiwan – Taipei, June 24 (CNA) China has reportedly developed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of interfering with the navigation of U.S. aircraft carriers in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, according to foreign reports. China Briefing, a news website sponsored by t ...
  • Asian Arms Race: Delhi, Mumbai to Get Missile ...
    India West – Delhi and Mumbai, India;s two biggest metropolitan cities, have been chosen for DRDO’s Ballistic Missile Defense system that can be put in place at short notice. A detailed proposal is being prepared for final clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security. The strateg ...
  • Record-setting bank forfeiture at ING ignites ...
    Reuters – A lack of any criminal prosecutions associated with the U.S. government’s deal last week in which Dutch bank ING agreed to forfeit a record $619 million for helping Iranians and Cubans pump billions of dollars through the U.S. financial system has drawn accusations that U.S. law ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.
  • Ikea responds to reports of old-growth logging
    In response to accusations by European NGOs that IKEA and its wholly owned subsidiary, Swedwood, were engaging in some questionable logging practices in Russia, Ikea is arguing that it has been cutting according to international standards that the company itself helped create.

water.org

  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...
  • A Bountiful Garden
    Clean, readily available water brings all manner of opportunities - thanks to a water connection in their backyard, this family is able to easily cultivate a garden full of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
  • June 2012 Conference Call
    Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...
  • Water for Generations
    The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
    Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

  • EPA Proposes Changes for 2010 Cement Standards
    In response to a federal court ruling and data from industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing changes to its 2010 air standards for the Portland cement manufacturing industry.
  • C and O Cucina Presents The Spirit of Italy
    I ordered Lobster Bisque soup which is prepared daily with lobster bits. Wow, for $8.95 that's a whole meal. It's enough to easily feed two. Sometimes my eyes are bigger then my stomach.
  • Manipuri Militant Caught in Guwahati
    Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and CRPF launched a search operation at the Guwahati railway station and discovered a KYKL militant.
  • Supreme Court Deals Obama Administration Key D ...
    It was a severe setback for an administration that has been reeling with scandal and disappointments all month. All eyes are now focused on the court's ruling this Thursday on the controversial and highly unpopular Obamacare.
  • ALIPAC Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling on Dete ...
    Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is celebrating the decision of the US Supreme Court announced this morning which upholds the key component of Arizona's enforcement only approach to deterring illegal immigration!

Worldnews

  • Most of Kashmir shut for 3rd day over shr ...
    AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press= SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Shops and businesses are closed for a third straight day across much of Indian-controlled Kashmir as residents protest the fiery destruction of a 200-year-old Muslim shrine. Thousands of government forces are patrolling streets in the di ...
  • Ford to Close Assembly Plant in Philippin ...
    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co. says it will close its 13-year-old assembly plant in the Philippines at the end of the year. Ford Group Philippines president Randy Krieger said Wednesday that the company "could not make a strong enough business case for fut ...
  • North Korea Tests the Patience of Close A ...
    Beijing. As Kim Jong Un, the young leader of North Korea, consolidates his grip on power, China is showing signs of increasing frustration at the bellicose behavior of its longtime ally. Since succeeding his father, Kim Jong Il, six months ago, Kim Jong Un has quickly alienated the Obama adm ...
  • Jimmy Carter attacks Barack Obama over as ...
    In an article written for the New York Times headlined "A Cruel and Unusual Record", Mr Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work trying to resolve conflicts around the globe, suggested that the US is in violation of 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declarati ...
  • Top US Afghan general visits Pakistan ami ...
    ISLAMABAD - The top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan is expected to visit Pakistan amid heightened tensions over militant networks allegedly based on Pakistani soil and still-closed military supply lines. The Pakistani military said U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen's Wednesday ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Cheaper, Faster Diagnosis In Heterogeneous Dis ...
    The first report of the diagnostic use of the technique of exome sequencing, where short sequences of DNA are analysed, shows that it can give good results at low cost, a researcher from The Netherlands told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics. The scientists were abl ...
  • Gut Microbes Battle A Common Set Of Viruses Sh ...
    The human gut is home to a teeming ecosystem of microbes that is intimately involved in both human health and disease. But while the gut microbiota is interacting with our body, they are also under constant attack from viruses. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have ana ...
  • Simple Lifestyle May Limit Exposure to Chemica ...
    A study of a mennonite community suggests a link between simple life and lower BPA levels. WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
  • Well: Craving Carbs on an Empty Stomach
    A new study shows that people who sit down to eat after an overnight fast are more likely to ignore protein, fats and vegetables and head straight for high-calorie carbohydrates and starches first. (Source: NYT Health)
  • [Comment] Sepsis studies need new direction
    Sepsis is a disorder that has been recognised since Hippocratic times; medical students learn about it and most physicians would recognise it at the bedside, particularly when fully developed in a patient with septic shock. However, in the past few months, drotrecogin alfa (a human recombinant a ...

Common Dreams

  • Obama Administration OKs Portion of TransCanad ...
    The Obama administration gave TransCanada the OK to build the southern portion of its Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Tuesday. The company still needs two other permits to build the other portions of the Keystone XL, which will bring tar sands crude from Albert to Texas' Gulf coast. Enviro ...
  • Mexican Media Scandal Hits Tumultuous Presiden ...
    On Wednesday, the Guardian/UK revealed new evidence showing a close relationship between Mexico's presidential frontrunner, Enrique Peña Nieto, and predominant broadcasting company Televisa, ahead of Sunday's presidential elections. According to the Guardian, a secret unit inside ...
  • Leading Intellectuals Call for 'Global Democra ...
    Well-known intellectuals from over ten countries, citing the failure of nation-states and international institutions to halt the destructive trends of environmental destruction and corporate-driven globalization, have initiated a 'Manifesto for Global Democracy' which calls for the devel ...
  • US Policy in Yemen Short-Sighted and Dangerous ...
    A panel discussion organised by the National Council on US-Arab Relations on Tuesday  gathered experts to discuss the US-Yemen relationship. The message from experts, according to reporting by Inter Press Service, was that current US policy is not only short-sighted, but extremely dangerous ...
  • 'Epic' Fire Forces Tens of Thousands to Flee i ...
    A record-breaking heat wave in Colorado has generated what one local fire chief called a 'firestorm of epic proportions' and forced approximately 32,000 people to flee their homes near the town of Colorado Springs. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • How Canada has changed since the 1992 Rio summit.
    To really understand how much Canada - and the world - has changed, its worth comparing the Canadian government summary of the original 1992 Earth Summit to its submission to the 20th anniversary summit held in Rio last week. I looked through these a few days ago while preparing some thoughts fo ...
  • NRC and Vermont Yankee Win In Federal Court
    The Vermont Department of Public Service sued the NRC, claiming that the NRC should not have issued a license extension to Vermont Yankee because the plant's water quality permits were not in order.  Today, a federal court in Washington ruled for the NRC and for Vermont Yankee...the license ...
  • Study: More MPG = More Jobs
    The connection may not seem obvious but improving the miles per gallon of our cars spurs job creation. This is for two reasons: (1) improving automobile efficiency requires the addition of new technologies, which are designed and manufactured by adding workers in the auto industry and (2) money ...
  • Deconstructing anti-nuclear economic myths
    I recently read a anti-nuclear piece that seems to follow on to a frustrating trend of pro-fossil contrarianism as of late. The animating complaint (given the author's market-oriented focus) is in the subsidies for new nuclear. Now - I am not an economist. I don't even pretend to be an ...
  • Proposed Auto Efficiency Standards Will Create ...
    New fuel economy standards proposed in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation could create 570,000 jobs between 2017 and 2030, according to a report released today by the BlueGreen Alliance.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Geithner and Bernanke Demand New Mega-Bailout ...
    larouchepac.com Capitol Hill sources have confirmed that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke are demanding that Congress prepare emergency legislation for yet another hyperinflationary bailout of the hopelessly bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial sy ...
  • Syria Blamed for Turkish Provocation
    by Stephen Lendman On June 22, two Turkish warplanes provocatively entered Syrian airspace low and fast. Doing so showed hostile intent. The Obama administration's dirty hands are all over this incident. Washington and Ankara wanted a reaction and got it. Expect what's ahead to unfold a ...
  • Unanswered Question Remains about Sandusky Case
    By Michael Collins Jerry Sandusky has molested his last troubled boy. He is going to jail for life. But a larger question remains after Sandusky's conviction. (Image: marsme1551) How did Jerry Sandusky get away with his conspicuous deviant behavior all of these years when so many people in a ...
  • Obama's War on Democracy
    by Stephen Lendman In June 2009, Obama orchestrated Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's ouster. A US supported fascist despot replaced him. For good reason, Honduras is called the murder capital of the world. Independent journalists are killed. So are protesters for democratic change. ...
  • The menacing plots of MKO for Iran
    Kourosh Ziabari The ill-omened, inauspicious plots of the terrorist gang Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization against Iran seem to have no end. The recent letter signed by 44 U.S. Senators addressed to President Obama in which it was implied that time for diplomacy with Iran is over and other options ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Canada's embarrassing second-class status in t ...
    In an opinion piece published in The Tyee and iPolitics, CCPA’s senior trade researcher Scott Sinclair analyzes the extraordinary concessions made by the Canadian government to gain entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations. Canada's terms of entry can only be desc ...
  • BC can meet energy needs, reduce GHGs — but we ...
    The latest study from our Climate Justice Project is both cautionary and hopeful. The study warns that mining, oil and gas corporations are putting increasingly large demands on BC’s hydroelectricity system, and BC households and small businesses face steep rate increases to pay for this industr ...
  • Too big to fail? Canadian banks are not immune ...
    A new report released by CCPA says that Canada is not immune to the banking problems we see abroad, and cautions that like all banks worldwide, Canadian banks are structurally vulnerable to instability.  The report, No More Swimming Naked: The Need for Modesty in Canadian Banking,  ex ...
  • SaskNotes: The Shield or the Sword? The Saskat ...
    Dan Cameron reviews the Saskatchewan government's recent Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation and asks whether the consultations may actually serve as an opportunity for the provincial labour movement to expand the process of collective bargaining. More here. 
  • Canadian identity, pluralism, and the performi ...
    The CCPA Education Project is pleased to present a remarkable education and cultural resource: Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come, edited by CCPA Research Associate charles c. smith. With narratives coming out of theatre, dance, music and other forms of artistic expression f ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Citizen Journalism and Independent Media need ...
    Yes!  I support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Get T-shirt ) No!  I don’t support Citizen Journalism and Independent Media  ( Fox News )
  • ‘UFO’ at the bottom of the Baltic ...
    By EDDIE WRENN,Mailonline – Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom Hole is surrounded by an strange rock formation that expedition team can not explain Stones are covered in something ‘resembling soot’ which has baffled experts Di ...
  • Looking Back to 1976-Road Trip with My Sister ...
    By Mary McGrath,studiocity.patch - It was the summer of 1976. I had graduated from UCSB a year earlier, and with job prospects slim to dim in Santa Barbara, I knew I had to make a change. Going back to Studio City was an option, as my brother Jack had offered to find me a job in [...]
  • ‘Marijuana changed us from Nazis to peac ...
    By NICK ENOCH,dailymail.co.uk - At the age of 11, blonde-haired, blue-eyed twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede formed a band and saw themselves as the new faces of pop music. But instead, the girls from Bakersfield, California, would soon be labelled the ‘new faces of hate’. Not surprising whe ...
  • And You Thought It Would Be Easy?
    Graduating the Class of 2012 Onto Our Overheated Planet  By Tom Engelhardt,Tomdispatch - [Note: No one invited me to give this graduation speech.  It was concocted freely in the campus of my mind and it’s meant for the rest of us in the class of 2012.] Class of 2012, greetings! It’s a deceptivel ...

FourWinds10

  • Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
    MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...
  • Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions
    ife in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday. Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen "dead zones,& ...
  • Exxon oil spill in Mont. river prompts evacuations
    LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 25-mile plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to close i ...
  • Bishops, Nuns and Rabbis Debate Gas Fracking
    Associated Press= PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are being blessed or ...
  • CDFA Pest PEIR Must Not Be Allowed
      This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safegua ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How Much Oil Does the World Produce?
    In the first installment of this series, I took a look at U.S. and global oil reserves according to the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Today, I want to examine oil production statistics since 1965. Highlights of this article and topics that will be explored include: New global oil p ...
  • How Much Oil is Left in the World?
    Over the next two to three weeks, I am going to post a series of short articles utilizing graphics I created from the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because I am working on the roll-out of a new product which will be geared specifically toward those with a financia ...
  • Highlights of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
    Last week the 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy was released. I always look forward to the release, because the data represent the most comprehensive, publicly available database on energy consumption and production statistics. I have now read through this year’s report, picking o ...
  • Oil Prices and Updates About Merica Internatio ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: Is there any merit to the rumor that the Obama Administration asked Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil output in order to lower prices leading up to the November election? What has caused the drop in West Texa ...
  • Future Direction of Oil Prices May See a Major ...
    Steady Climb Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into the future, I foresaw oil prices being higher than they were in the present. The chart below — using spot prices from the ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The New Scary Threat in Canned Soup
    Chinese researchers have just given you one more reason to ditch canned soup for good: A controversial chemical used in canned-good linings, as well as in certain types of plastics and the coatings for cash-register receipts, has been associated with higher rates of brain cancer. The study, pub ...
  • Big Pharma's New Low
    Tired of Ronald McDonald pushing cheeseburgers on your toddler? That's nothing compared to the pharmaceutical industry's new marketing campaign: using characters from Disney's Madagascar 3 movie to push over-the-counter drugs. The pharmaceutical company Merck has been using Madagascar character ...
  • The Food Threat That Worries Your Doctor
    Genetically modified foods have saturated supermarket shelves. About 80 percent of processed foods in stores today contain ingredients created through complex laboratory methods, resulting in foods that would never be found in nature. While it might seem that such a widespread shift in the food ...
  • Decorate Your House...With Trash
    Want to do something to stem the tide of trash that's smothering fish and creating ecological havoc in the world's oceans? Install new carpet, specifically, carpet from Interface FLOR, the über-green carpet company that's made a name for itself by making carpet from discarded plastic and other ...
  • 6 Shocking Facts About Your Dinner
    When you dine out at restaurants or cruise through the aisles of a grocery store, your eye is on the prize: filling your stomach—or pantry—with your favorite foods. Little thought is given to those who actually harvest, prepare, serve, and sell what you choose. Yet, those workers constitute one ...

big think

  • Mars Reality Show Could Fund Manned Colony by 2023
    What's the Latest Development? The Dutch company Mars One is planning to establish a manned colony on the Red Planet, beginning with a population of four astronauts, by 2023. To cope with the cost of the project, estimated at $6 billion, the company says it will create an unparalleled me ...
  • How You Can Reply to a Possible Alien Message
    What's the Latest Development? 35 years after a mysterious radio signal was received on Earth, bearing characteristics that set it distinctly apart from the background noise of outer space, humanity will offer a reply. And you can contribute to that cosmic reply via Twitter: "All tweets ...
  • That “NewSpace Moment”: Silicon Valley Redux
    The recent berthing of SpaceX’s (NSG 100: SET; #1) Dragon capsule at the International Space Station (ISS) changed history by becoming the first commercial spacecraft to successfully berth with the ISS. NSG analysts have extensively written in Thruster that the event will catalyze the growth of ...
  • How Humans Could Get to Mars in Weeks, Rather ...
    What's the Latest Development? This summer, researchers from the public and private sectors will come together for a project aimed at reducing the travel time to Mars--from eight months to just a few weeks. NASA, Boeing and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, will lay the groundwork f ...
  • Your Space Tourism Travel Guide
    What's the Latest Development? Unthinkable just a decade ago, the BBC has assembled a compendium of travel options for the space tourist of the near future. Perhaps the most well-known venture is Virgin Galactic, scheduled to launch in 2013. After a few days training, amateur astronauts ...

Information Liberation

  • SWAT Team Brings TV Crew To Film Raid Against ...
    Evansville, Indiana police intent on "sending a message" that online threats against police will not be tolerated organized a massive raid against a forum troll on an online forum. The police decided to bring a TV crew to film their raid against the...
  • Libertarians "Nullify" Police State Checkpoint ...
    Via The International Libertarian/CopBlock: The problem with these checkpoints is that they*re warrantless, arbitrary searches. This goes against all standards of civilized behavior and is not tolerable in a free society.* Not only are checkpoints...
  • How to Think Like a State
    Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain cast of mind at work here. This is my attempt to frame it up and identify its main features. Experience shows that if somet...
  • Media Promotes Troops On Streets to "Cut Down ...
    Following reports last week that U.S. Army wheeled tanks would be rolling down residential streets and highways in St. Louis as part of a training program, local news media channels featured interviews with residents who praised the sight of troops o...
  • The Rise of the Anarcho-Hippie?
    Hello from Boston, Massachusetts, I spent the last week in what I call the free-er state (for more on the Free State Project, click here), New Hampshire at PorcFest. I say free-er because while thousands of people have moved there and h...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...
  • A Mixed Legacy
    Bella, horrida bella, et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. - Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, … Cont ...
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →
  • Liberty, Faith And Reason
    Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual. In an … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Time to rebuild the Periodic Table electronically
    Back in the 20th century, around the time quantum physics was emerging, Niels Bohr tried to explain the pattern of elements that make up the Periodic Table based on the order in which each atom’s “shells” fill with electrons. Unfortunately, the theoretical filling order governe ...
  • Giving birth in an MRI machine
    It’s unlikely to be a comfortable place to deliver a baby, but now a video documents the first birth in an MRI machine. Christian Bamberg and a team from Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, announced the world first in December 2010, but the movie has only recently been release ...
  • Michael McIntyre’s three ways to save the planet
    Michael McIntyre and Steven Murphy of Carleton University and Bernard Funston of Northern Canada Consulting in Ottawa, and Canada, suggest that the resources required to sustain human life are being degraded perhaps to the point of no return. They suggest that now is the time for collective acti ...
  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...
  • Tea and crumpets and prostate cancer risk
    Earlier this week I criticised the endless studies reporting that tea, sex, coffee can raise and/or lower prostate cancer risk. Well, NHS Choices has waded in with its usual balanced assessment of the work and come to a sensible conclusion: Men who are tea drinkers should not be alarmed by the r ...

RFF Library

  • EPA’s Report to Congress on Black Carbon ...
    US EPA / by Erika Sasser (Presentation at the Black Carbon STAR Grant Kickoff Workshop) www.epa.gov/ncer/events/calendar/2012/may21/sasser.pdf [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] EPA is undertaking new research aimed at better characterizing black carbon’s effects on global warm ...
  • EPA’s Report to Congress on Black Carbon ...
    US EPA / by Erika Sasser (Presentation at the Black Carbon STAR Grant Kickoff Workshop) www.epa.gov/ncer/events/calendar/2012/may21/sasser.pdf [From an article in InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] EPA is undertaking new research aimed at better characterizing black carbon’s effects on global warm ...
  • Fixing A Broken National Flood Insurance Program
    The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) http://bit.ly/NwcXs8 [Website] The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insures 5.6 million American homeowners and some $1 trillion in assets. For many years, however, the premiums collected have not been sufficient to cover losses, resultin ...
  • Fixing A Broken National Flood Insurance Program
    The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) http://bit.ly/NwcXs8 [Website] The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insures 5.6 million American homeowners and some $1 trillion in assets. For many years, however, the premiums collected have not been sufficient to cover losses, resultin ...
  • Annual Energy Outlook 2012
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/ {From Press Release] Key results highlighted in AEO2012 include: The rate of growth in energy use slows over the projection period, reflecting moderate population growth, an extended economic recovery, and in ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • What’s Behind Last Week's ‘Coup’ in Paraguay?
    Latin American analysts draw connections between agribusiness and the Paraguayan elite   Last Friday Paraguay’s president Fernando Lugo was impeached by congress in a move condemned by the landlocked country’s South America ...
  • Redesign of Media Co-op sites
    So, there has been discussion about updating the design of the Media Co-op for some time. This breaks down into three categories: A facelift, and update to the "look and feel" of the web site Additional features Structural and f ...
  • Still In Search of Justice: The story of Secur ...
    “I have been in detention for 12 years without charge or trial... Why? I didn't commit any crime and I didn't do anything wrong, whether here or abroad. If I committed a crime, charge me and put me on trial, or release me. It's very simple – even people who commit murder ...
  • Radio CKUT : Témoignages de la manifestation d ...
    Écoutez un reportage enregistré dans les rues de Montréal le 22 juin 2012, durant la grande manifestation en appui à la grève étudiante en cours au Québec qui rejete ouvertement la loi 78. Dans ce reportage, vous allez écouter les percussions du groupe Movimento en musique de fond derrière les ...
  • Student Protests in Sudan
    an Interview with Girifna co-founder Nagi Musa On June 24, 2012, David Widgington spoke with Sudanese activist and co-founder of Girifna, Nagi Musa, from his location in Cairo about the student demonstrations and violent repression that is ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...
  • Why is the American left so useless?
    David Seaton's News Links Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates and men decayOliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle- ...
  • Angela Merkel and the hour of the Wolf
    David Seaton's News Links Angela Merkel in the DDRAngie was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell. She grew up in Communist East Germany, was member of the Communist Party's youth group the Free German Youth (FDY, from the German initials), graduated from Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, and worked as ...
  • American Karma: Obama and Free Floating Paranoia
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by takin ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • How Does Apple Do It?
    A lot of tech critics have suggested that Apple has a big advantage in the tablet market because it controls both the hardware and the software and can therefore achieve a much tighter level of system integration. This in turn just makes everything work more smoothly. This sounds plausible, but ...
  • Quote of the Day: How to Tell if Your City is ...
    From Doug Rawson, chief executive of a printing company a few miles south of LA in the city of Vernon: John Pérez has to be laughing. In retrospect, I think he was right. I think the city is poorly run.... I think we made a big mistake. This is totally inside baseball for folks who liv ...
  • Everyone Hates Healthcare
    The Washington Post reports that there's just no pleasing the American public: Fifty-six percent of Americans rate the nation’s current health care system unfavorably in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, while 52 percent regard the “federal law making changes in the health care ...
  • Buying Insurance vs. Paying a Fine: What's the ...
    Since the healthcare mandate is on everybody's mind today, Ezra Klein asks a good question: does the mandate even matter? [If you choose not to buy insurance] you have to pay a penalty of $695 a year (that’s the 2016 number; after 2016, it rises with inflation) or 2.5 percent of you ...
  • September Not So Cruel a Month After All
    Remember that business from yesterday about banking crises starting in September? Forget it. Apparently if you follow the right link, and then download and unzip the companion data file, it turns out that 22 out of 25 of the September crises were from 2008. So the whole thing is a ridiculous not ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
    Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...
  • IC 329: The Liam Neeson Okie Doke
    Topics: The Worst Three Days The Liam Neeson Okie Doke The Lindsay Lohan Death Clock Watch Tourist injured by Drake & Chris Brown scuffle Forcing empathy never works Australia…God’s way of saying he hates us Uncle Luke as a father figure The false false equivalency Serial Teddy ...
  • IC 328: Sophtest Niggas Alive
    Topics: Octomom Porn Pictures Paul W.S. Anderson needs to be stopped Kriss threatens to stab Adam Sandler Slave shackle sneakers Chris Brown and Drake have an altercation R Kelly is a pedophile Sandusky trial updates Why kriss doesn’t talk politics anymore Share with your friends:
  • IC 327: Flowers
    Topics: Boxing disappoints again What the UFC did to become popular Ninja Assassin these hoes Giving a guy flowers Men lie to women more than women know Django Unchained Just shut up and enjoy the movie Negro Twitter Rebellion Is Creflo Gonna Having to Choke a Bitch? Share with your friends:
  • IC 326: T.O. Tears
    Topics: Avengers news Aliens 3 > Alien? Judge Dredd The Amazing Spider-Man video game Kriss hates strippers Strippers the only women you’re allowed to disrespect The Horrors of strippers Banning Sodas in NYC Salting your food with tears Celebrities going broke Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Hotter summers set to make power generators sweat
    Electricity producers using fossil fuel and nuclear plants must adapt or face dips in generating capacity at their plants of up to a fifth in summer, due to scarcer, hotter cooling water, find Michelle van Vliet from Wageningen University and her colleagues.
  • Warming brings more frequent and fickle Europe ...
    Drier southern European springs give shorter notice of sweltering or shivering summers over the continent, find Benjamin Quesada from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement and colleagues

e!Science News

  • Most new pesticides have roots in natural subs ...
    Scientists who search for new pesticides for use in humanity's battle of the bugs and other threats to the food supply have been learning lessons from Mother Nature, according to a new analysis. It concludes that more than two out of every three new pesticide active ingredients approved in recen ...
  • First 3-D nanoscale optical cavities from meta ...
    The world's smallest three-dimensional optical cavities with the potential to generate the world's most intense nanolaser beams have been created by a scientific team led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Univer ...
  • New study demonstrates the role of urban green ...
    In what might be the first study to report continuous measurements of net CO2 exchange of urban vegetation and soils over a full year or more, scientists from UC Santa Barbara and the University of Minnesota conclude that not only is vegetation important in the uptake of the greenhouse gas, but ...
  • Evidence of oceanic 'green rust' offers hope f ...
    A rare kind of mineral which scientists hope could be used to remove toxic metals and radioactive species from the environment played a similar, crucial role early in Earth's history. read more
  • Marine energy doubled by predicting wave power
    The energy generated from our oceans could be doubled using new methods for predicting wave power. Research led by the University of Exeter, published (27 June) in the journal Renewable Energy, could pave the way for significant advancements in marine renewable energy, making it a more viable so ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...
  • BNC Discussion Forum updates
    In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderator), it made sense to give people a robust classification structure. But in practice, such an approach ...
  • Roads Not Taken (yet)
    Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...
  • Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or ...
    Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
  • Donate to Support Mountain Heroes Arrested Today!
    Donate here to support the 22 arrested today sitting in Congressional Offices to stop mountaintop removal. NOTE: this button will take you to Rising Tide America’s website.  We can’t yet release the names of those arrested by Capitol Police, but … Continue reading →

Amped Status

+972

  • Only through force: My saga with an Israeli In ...
    The struggle to get reimbursed by my Internet provider for a mistake they made has required me to scream, make threats and get personal just so that someone in a position of power will listen to me. My unfortunate take away is that in many cases, the powerless can only get through to the powerfu ...
  • Three ways in which the settlement project is ...
    The Ulpana illegal settlement show goes on. Yesterday, the first fifteen families were evacuated from their homes in the Givat Ulpana neighborhood of the settlement of Beit El, after the government upheld a Supreme Court ruling that the five buildings were built on private Palestinian lands and ...
  • Activists stage street action to protest Israe ...
    By Noa Shaindlinger Yesterday (Tuesday June 26) was International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) organized an action in the public sphere to remind and demonstrate to Israelis that the state engages in daily acts of torture against Pa ...
  • The profitable occupation, and why it is never ...
    An understanding of the profitable side of the occupation – way more considerable than most people imagine – could force us to change our entire political thinking. Ami Kaufman (on his +972 blog) and Emily Hauser (Open Zion) discuss the debate regarding the financial burden the occupation ...
  • Italian Communists liken Merkel to Hitler
    Rome, Italy — Ahead of last week’s visit to the Italian capital by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italy’s Communist party put up posters likening Merkel to Adolf Hilter. Posters have appeared in a few spots in Rome portraying the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing an SS- ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural w ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOOM! CAN AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE SERVICING, A ...
    The first thing the entire world needs to understand is that there are two (count ‘em) TWO versions of American Home Mortgage Servicing…. The first American Home Mortgage Servicing is a Maryland corporation.  That corporation was the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding.  When American ...
  • BOOM! THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT APPELLATE ISSUE- ...
    A criminal has the right to confront his accusers in a criminal trial….right? A defendant in a lawsuit has a right to know who it is that’s suing him….right? In the context of foreclosure, “servicers” are taking direction from Wizards who are hiding behind the scene ...
  • Wide Awake News…Is A Debt Bomb About To ...
    WIDE AWAKE NEWS Scridb filter
  • Banks Breaking Into Homes, It’s Unfair D ...
    If a bank sent a jack booted thug to come kick down your door, burst into your home, take your personal property and then asked for your mortgage account number and whether you had 401 k’s that could be liquidated to pay your mortgage, even the most hostile court might just find that to be ...
  • You’re A Moron If You Don’t Watch ...
    Amerikans have become hopelessly moronic, wasting all their time watching sports, entertainment television and the insanely delusional games of diversion called “The News” and the seasonally fabricated distractions called, “The Elections”. As modern day Amerikans, we are ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Reconfiguring Our Future
    There are only two more steps in the process of engagement that we need to consider (some will see more, …Continue reading »
  • The Art of Connecting
    Poet Robert Frost used to say, “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem …Continue reading »
  • Dialogue of Silence
    The most recent edition of National Geographic presents us with some troubling news. Around the globe, one language dies every …Continue reading »
  • What If Citizens Led Ottawa
    Note: The following is the article I wrote for the London Free Press for June 23, 2012, with the illustration …Continue reading »
  • Humanizing Our Words
    A few days ago I was having coffee at one of my favourite places when in walked a Conservative MP …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    Last September, I started posting my reflections on the weirdness of  academia – amongst other things – every Friday, under the title Lost in the Maize.  In part this was to document the shift from being a pseudo-academic to a real one.  But it was also to provide some motivation to ...
  • NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lac ...
    Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the p ...
  • Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will de ...
    Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentiall ...
  • Building a sustainable future: World Economic ...
    “Technology doesn’t just happen” – people must be sick of hearing me say this.  Yet as chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, it’s something I seem to end up saying rather a lot as we strive to help decision-leaders maximiz ...
  • Nanotechnology – what web resources do you fin ...
    Over at the Risk Science Center blog, I have posted a request for help on web-based nanotechnology resources. Given that 2020 Science has such a nano-savvy readership, I thought I would cross-post the request here. If you have any suggestions on useful websites dealing with nanotechnology &#8211 ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Funding ...
    There is one program that, if implemented, will not only benefit both farmers and eaters, but may have the added benefit of job growth and economic activity.
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Protect ...
    Conservation programs are necessary in order to keep our cropland, wetlands, and public healthy.
  • DOJ ain’t the new sheriff in town, after all
    Ask and you shall receive … In early April I wrote a blogpost lamenting the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice had not followed up on its nationwide “workshops” on competition in agricultural markets that were held throughout 2010. The lack of follow-up seemed a bold-faced betrayal of farm ...
  • Get by with a little health from my friends…
    In an uncharacteristic act of relative efficiency, the Senate debated 73 amendments and on Thursday, June 21, passed the bill in the span of three short days. And, believe it or not, the final bill is a little better for public health than it was three days ago.
  • Feeding the World, or What We Talk About When ...
    It sounds simple, doesn’t it, that all humans have a right to food and natural resources? After all, most of the world’s poor and hungry depend on agriculture for their survival—and yet, they bear a disproportionate burden of the planet’s degraded lands.

k2p blog

  • Midsommar
    A week away from blogging as we travel north through the hinterland and into the Arctic Circle for a Swedish Midsommar! With the midnight sun and consequent shortage of sleep I suspect I shall not be blogging much.
  • Political correctness shifts away from wind in ...
    A government re-think on costly green energy resources is a winning statement of intent.
  • Rio+20 fizzles into insignificance
    A text has been agreed in Rio to be "approved" by country leaders later this week. The text appears to watered down and to be largely meaningless in terms of binding commitments by any country for moving towards the politically correct view of "a more sustainable future".
  • Innovation – To do what cannot be done
    To be able to state that "something" cannot be done we must first be able to articulate that "something". And to articulate it we must be able to imagine it. And when we find "it cannot be done" we can qualify it to be "it cannot be done now" -- and the process of innovation starts.
  • Greece stays in the Euro! Football or is it th ...
    Football is a great leveller. And so is the Eurozone - but unfortunately it levels down to the Lowest Participating Economy (LPE).

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Stuck Without Refund, Should I Listen To Walma ...
    J. is stuck between two commercial titans and regular Worst Company in America contenders: Walmart and PayPal. After he returned a defective tablet for a refund, Walmart held on to the money. J. filed a PayPal dispute, and has been told to drop the dispute in order to get a refund from Walmart. ...
  • Personal Finance Roundup
    The New Money Apps [Wall Street Journal] "Here are some new services that are pushing online budgeting and investing capabilities in new directions." The best places to retire now [CNN Money] "Retirement is different today. So are retirees. Here are 20 destinations to suit both." 10 Things Divor ...
  • New Chase Devices In Stores Will Accept Paymen ...
    JPMorgan Chase is taking a step toward its mobile future with an announcement today that it's started the process of equipping merchants with newfangled devices that will accept payments both from mobile phone signals as well as cards embedded with computer chips, and the traditional magnetic st ...
  • I Paid My Bill In Person, Suddenlink Doesn&#82 ...
    E. knows that he paid his Suddenlink (ISP/cable) bill, but Suddenlink doesn't. Which is interesting, because he physically went to one of their offices, wrote a check that left a carbon copy, and paid the bill. You would think that this would be a sufficient evidence trail for Suddenlink. It was ...
  • Hertz On Demand Doesn’t Work If No Cars ...
    Benjamin lives in a major city, so he rents cars when he needs one rather than owning one. This system works well for him, and he's a loyal customer of Hertz. What he'd really like is to become a customer of Hertz On Demand, a Zipcar-like service that lets customers rent cars by the hour [...]

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblower Concerns Prompt Hanford Plant De ...
    Associated Press: Hanford Waste Plant Sees New Costs, Delays Summary: The Department of Energy announced major delays in the building of the Hanford nuclear waste treatment plant yesterday. The plant will be delayed by at least a year while serious technical problems alleged by whistleblo ...
  • Government & MSM's Deliberate Obfuscation of t ...
    The government is playing dumb in its public statements on the "leak hysteria" in Washington: “We have tried more leak cases — brought more leak cases during the course of this administration than any other administration,” Mr. Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I was getting ham ...
  • Judge Orders Bradley Manning Prosecutors to Ex ...
    Associated Press: WikiLeaks Prosecutors Must Detail Evidence Search Summary: Yesterday, a military judge ordered the prosecution in the Bradley Manning case to explain their actions after accusations from the defense that they had been withholding evidence. The documents in question would ...
  • Note to DNI: Muzzling Low-Level Employees Won' ...
    Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper, Jr. thinks intelligence community (IC) employees should be like his grandchildren: seen but not heard. Unfortunately, that means his IC community "grandchildren" could witness government crimes, waste, fraud, abuse, or dangers to health a ...
  • One Former Democratic President & Nobel Peace ...
    President Jimmy Carter penned a must-read op-ed in today's New York Times, sharply criticizing the current President.  Carter and Obama share more than having held the same office, they are also both Nobel Peace Prize winners. Here's what one Nobel Peace Prize winner has to& ...

UK Progressive

  • The Elite Coup is Complete
    by Robert Hunziker The American plutocratic revolution is now complete. The proof is: There are no criminal charges for the housing bust and financial meltdown of 2008. Starting with Reagan in the 1980s, as of today the Right has won their decades-long overthrow for complete control of America. ...
  • Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the ...
    Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona and every other state should use whatever means necessary to keep out illegal immigrants. He also wants English to be spoken in every classroom in the nation, and the pledge of allegiance recited every morning. “We have to pres ...
  • Drone Documents: Why The Government Won’t Rele ...
    by Cora Currier, ProPublica The covert U.S. effort to strike terrorist leaders using drones has moved further out of the shadows this year — targeted killing has been mentioned by President Obama and defended in speeches by Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama counterterrorism adviser John Bre ...
  • Dis-membering Stonewall
    by Rev. Irene Monroe “By institutionalizing memory, resisting the onset of oblivion, recalling the memory of tragedy that for long years remained hidden or unrecognized and by assigning its proper place in the human conscience, we respond to our duty to remember.  —UNESCO Director-General Koïchi ...
  • COMMENT: Third Time Lucky for Ryanair?
    by Business Travel News BTNews is not a fan of Ryanair.  The nickname it has earned with the travelling public is well justified. “The world’s most annoying airline.” Michael O’Leary will say that the 76m sector passengers who fly with Ryanair prove that the pseudo Dublin-based carrier (its larg ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Don’t miss Donna La Frambois in Australi ...
    Donna La Frambois — author of the ground-breaking book “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” and writer of the NoFrakkingConsensus Blog — is finally coming to Australia. I’ve booked. Have you? Donna has been a key playe ...
  • Get a Cartoon Carbon Tax Poster to protest! It ...
    The Galileo Movement are offering to send out 1 – 5 cartoon posters to you to coincide with that Tax-on-Everything that starts this Sunday. To order, email Galileomovement AT gmail.com. Let’s help the people of Australia understand just why we will be paying billions. The Galileo Mo ...
  • Uses for “Carbon-Tax” compensation ...
    I’m humbled and delighted. People are finding all kinds of creative ways to use that carbon tax compensation. (Thank you!) Gillards naked vote buying bribe is a step too low for conscientious hard working Australians. Here Geoffrey Houston wrote to let the Prime Minister know (and CC&#8217 ...
  • Disaster! Denialism makes it to Brazil. (Skept ...
    Desmogblog mark yet another day in the Diary of How the Skeptics Won. They thought they had Brazil sewn up, but now realize with dismay that skeptics are getting heard (funny how the truth spreads). Brazil with the 6th biggest economy in the world and 200 million people is “influential&#82 ...
  • Has North Victoria cooled, and is that the gho ...
    Ian Bryce sent me a striking graph (or two). Looking at the original raw data from Echuca Victoria shows a dramatic cooling trend of nearly half a degree since 1900, and rather than being a siting anomaly, it’s repeated in two towns about 100km away. Curiously he also finds peaks in the ma ...

ReNew America

  • Arizona's victory
    (Rich Lowry) - Upon its passage, Arizona's immigration law was considered so outlandish that Attorney General Eric Holder famously rushed to condemn it without reading it. Now the Supreme Court has read the law and rejected Holder's case against its central element, the so-called "show me your p ...
  • Foreign law rules in U.S. courts
    (Washington Times) - Can U.S. state laws be overturned because foreign governments don't like them? According to the Supreme Court, the answer is yes. In Arizona v. U.S., the case over Arizona's S.B. 1070 immigration law, the Supreme Court gave one of the most comprehensive arguments yet justify ...
  • Arizona case: End of state sovereignty
    (Joseph Farah) - As usual, Justice Antonin Scalia is exactly right about the Supreme Court muddled decision over Arizona's power to police its own territory and enforce existing laws on immigration. In his dissent on a ruling that strictly limits what states can to do protect their own citizens ...
  • Romney taking heat on amnesty question
    (Washington Times) - The past two weeks have offered Mitt Romney numerous opportunities to clarify his stance on immigration -- and every time the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has taken a pass. Looking to run out the clock before the November election without getting entangled in ...
  • Romney: If Supreme Court doesn't end Obamacare ...
    (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney stepped up his criticism on Tuesday of President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, saying if the U.S. Supreme Court does not overturn the 2010 healthcare overhaul when it decides its fate this week he would dump it if elected in November...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • 2012 Countdown Clock
    There are lots of these online, but here we have a real clock that counts down to Dec 21, 2012 – or any other date you care to plug in to it. Regardless of dates, it will always feature the Aztec Sun Stone (yep, not Mayan, but the best visual representation of the Long Count calender we ha ...
  • Mad As Hell Sends Up 2012ers
    So I take time out from TEOTWAWKI research, and sit down to watch an Australian comedy TV show, Mad As Hell. But it seems that 2012 is following me around the house, and they run a sketch in which an Aussie chap is planning on surviving 2012 in a bunker! http://www.abc.net.au/tv/madashell/episo ...
  • Preppers Conference in Sweden
    This is a strange little conference. It’s run by a reasonably big and serious security organization, but the conference is quite small (and affordable). EPCO is the first Pan-European Conference and EXPO of it’s kind. The event is hosted by the Institute of Swedish Safety & Secur ...
  • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    Critics might be divided on the new comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but I think those with a strong awareness of the topic might enjoy the movie more – I’m definitely looking forward to seeing it when it opens in Australia. But with no release date set for us down h ...
  • Do You Wear A Seatbelt?
    You probably do, because in the western world you are typically legally compelled to wear one. Regardless of the law, sensible drivers would still wear a seat belt, even though they could easily go years or even a lifetime without ever needing one. Is your home insured for fire? It probably is. ...

Facing South

  • Guestworkers at Gulf Coast Walmart seafood su ...
    Mexican guestworkers file federal complaints against a crawfish processor in Louisiana, alleging abusive treatment such as being forced to work 24 hours straight without overtime pay. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The real obscenity of mountai ...
    Mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe of West Virginia was questioned about child porn by U.S. Capitol Police after submitting a photo of a child bathing in mine-polluted water to a House committee chaired by a lawmaker who counts coal companies among his biggest contributors. read more
  • VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the ...
    Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South. read more
  • Florida groups relaunch voter registration dri ...
    After a federal judge rules Florida's laws on voter registration are too restrictive, groups like the League of Women Voters are back in action. But the state is digging in on a plan to flag and possibly purge thousands of voters, even though the data questioning their citizenship is riddled wit ...
  • Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'n ...
    Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools. read more

One News Page

  • Euro 2012: Portugal heartbroken after 4-2 pena ...
    Cesc Fabregas scored the decisive spot-kick to send Spain into their second successive European Championship final after even 120 minutes of football could not see the deadlock broken. Reported by Firstpost 51 minutes ago
  • Iran says ready to help solve Syria crisis
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran is ready to help international envoy Kofi Annan's bid to bring peace to Syria, but if some countries do not want Tehran at a meeting of global powers then 'that's their problem,' Iran's U.N. Reported by Firstpost 55 minutes ago
  • Cyprus EU bailout bid accepted, IMF involved
    NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus won support from its euro zone partners on Wednesday for emergency funding to prop up its banks, crippled by their Greek debt holdings, in assistance which will probably include aid from the IMF. Reported by Firstpost 55 minutes ago
  • Google goes up against Amazon, Apple with Nexu ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc ( GOOG.O ) will sell its first tablet from mid-July for $199, hoping to replicate its smartphone success in a hotly contested market now dominated by Amazon.com Inc's ( AMZN.O ) Kindle Fire and Apple Inc's ( AAPL.O ) iPad. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Bellary Reddy faces Rs 880 crore property atta ...
    In one of the biggest property attachment cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the Enforcement Directorate has identified assets worth more than Rs 880 crore belonging to former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy, his associates and companies in the mining scam case. Reported ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • Forget Airbrushing: Be Part of American's Best ...
    I discovered Mamalode by accident. If you had told me, as I tore out of Montana for college at age 17, that one day writers from New York City to Silicon Valley, from Alaska to Florida, would be agog over a parenting magazine being printed right under their noses in my hometown, Missoula ... .. ...
  • We Want a Puppy! Shelter or Breeder?
    Dear Mouthy Housewives, Our family has decided to get a puppy. We're very excited about this, however, my husband and I are disagreeing about where to get the dog. I want to get one from the city shelter, but he thinks we should get one from a breeder instead. Cost aside ($100 at the shelter vs ...
  • Have I Become Racist Against White People?
    I recently got into a little disagreement on Facebook, through a comment thread on an acquaintance’s page. I left a comment saying that people who fly confederate flags are generally not the kind of people who a black man (or woman) might want to be caught in a dark alley with. My point was not ...
  • Salt-Crusted Grilled Fish with Lemongrass (Pla ...
    It really doesn't matter what it is—from some simple chicken satay skewers to a fancy medallion of filet mignon—as long as it involves the grill, the boyfriend is up to the challenge. So when I came across a recipe for Thai-style grilled fish (pla pao) last year, he was excited...and ...
  • Diapers to Dirt: A Compost Success Story
    An experiment in diaper composting pays off:"Our son wore gDiapers for 2.5 years. Averaging around 1900 diapers the first year and then around 1000 for the second year (since he was in daycare two days a week) - that's almost 3000 diapers saved from the landfill by either composting or flushing ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection
    According to CDC statistics, it is estimated that 29.8 million adults suffered from sinus infection, or sinusitis in 2010. This infection of the sinuses causes individuals to experience trouble breathing, and can often be painful. ...
  • Basil: A Potent One-Two Punch of Robust Flavor ...
    Derived from the Greek word meaning royal,1 basil is a versatile herb that has lived up to its pedigree. With its wealth of nutrients, from hefty amounts of vitamin K and calcium, to its high antioxidant oils, basil offers an ...
  • How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishme ...
    In his book Psychiatryland, psychiatrist Phillip Sinaikin recounts reading a scientific article in which it was debated whether a three-year-old girl who ran out into traffic had oppositional-defiant disorder or bipolar disorder, the latter marked by “grandiose delusions” ...
  • Cut Your Cholesterol Without Drugs
    Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were once viewed as “wonder drugs” and as major players in the fight to reduce cardiovascular disease. But as use of statins became widespread, serious side effects emerged. Side effects, coupled with ...
  • Which eco-labels can you trust?
    When you go to the store, you probably notice the colorful multitudes of eco-product labels. The claims are diverse, touting everything from “100% recycled materials” to “cruelty-free” farming methods. But how can you tell if ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 22, 2012
    Coal miners are seen before taking part in “La Marcha Negra”, a five hundred kilometers walk to Madrid, in Mieres, near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 22, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their ...
  • Rockefeller tells W.Va. what it doesn’t ...
    Some things are abundantly clear this week, following Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Senate floor speech about the future of our state’s coalfields: In West Virginia, it’s big news — huge news, really — if one of our political leaders dares to tell a little bit of truth abo ...
  • Rockefeller: Coal must ‘boldly embrace&# ...
    Mr. President, I rise today in the shadow of one seemingly narrow Senate vote — the Inhofe resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on mercury and air toxics — to talk about West Virginia. About our people – our way of life, our health, our ...
  • Happy West Virginia Day!
  • Legislation seeks review of mining’s hea ...
    AP photo by Jeff Gentner New federal legislation was introduced today that seeks a moratorium on new mountaintop removal permits and demands that the federal government examine the growing scientific evidence that residents living near these mining operations are at greater risk of serious healt ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Annoying Things in OS X
    I have a friend who is getting into OS X for the first time after being a lifetime poweruser in Windows. He has a number of valid complaints, and I wonder what the official OS X fanboy answers are. [ Note: I'm an OS X fanboy. ] Basically, the problem is that for an operating [...]
  • Buddhism’s Fundamental Contradiction
    I apologize for being so late to the game here, but aren’t the Buddhist concepts of Karma and the inevitable unfolding of the universe inconsistent? Or, to state it differently, if there is no free choice, and life is simply moving through us, how does one get punished Karmically for negat ...
  • Find Your Rulers | Voltaire
    To find out who rules over you, simple determine who you’re not allowed to criticize. ~ Voltaire Related ContentQuotes: Voltaire“Those Who Believe Absurdities Will Commit Atrocities — Voltaire”The Best Books of 2010 | The EconomistPaul Graham’s Creativity and D ...
  • O2 Platform – Real-Time Vulnerability Creation ...
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    Google is like a math prodigy that is unhappy because no matter what he tries he’s unable to write poetry or make people laugh. Link. Related ContentMath and ProgrammingGoogle and Big BrotherThe First Result When Googling SantorumMath Pickup LinesPromiscuous Women Tend to be Unhappy

Fitwatch

  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...
  • FIT at Mayday march, London
    FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]

Worldwide Hippies

  • And You Thought It Would Be Easy?
    Graduating the Class of 2012 Onto Our Overheated Planet  By Tom Engelhardt,Tomdispatch - [Note: No one invited me to give this graduation speech.  It was concocted freely in the campus of my mind and it’s meant for the rest of us in the class of 2012.] Class of 2012, greetings! It’s a deceptivel ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday
    Lesbian Teen Couple Found Shot In Texas Park, 1 Survives Police in Texas are searching for an assailant who targeted a lesbian couple in a close-range shooting that left one woman dead and the other in the hospital, however authorities said it is not being investigated as a hate crime. Detective ...
  • Man the F*** UP!
    By Diana May- Waldman,WorldWide Hippies–I am confused over the continuing war on women. I scratch my head in disbelief that any man, politician or otherwise thinks for one minute that he has the right to make any decisions concerning my body. I just think it’s ridiculous. I keep call ...
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff (Video)
    In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Dr. Woody; Cookie Crumbs,Windy Star,Hippy Woman “Slightly Relevant” Today; Rooftop Occupation Kicks Off Nationwide, Fox in the Pryery Mystery of Stonehenge: solved? Doc says you can still fuck with them on election d ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Digest: Harrison, Sly and Ha ...
    George Harrison’s Catholic Krishna By Mark Judge,realclearreligion.org -Who knew that George Harrison once called the 1960s hippies in San Francisco “bums” and “spotty youth”? It’s one of the revelations in George Harrison: Living in the Material World, the Martin S ...

reference frame

  • Murray Gell-Mann on testing superstring theory
    A "Web of Stories" interviewer was under a visible influence of several crackpots who have polluted the science (and other) popular media in recent years so he asked Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann what he thought about the testing of superstring theory. Murray Gell-Mann was obvio ...
  • Microsoft Surface: serious about details of ha ...
    A few weeks ago, I downloaded Windows 8 Release Preview and tested it inside the VirtualBox: here's how. It's a great Windows operating system. The newest feature is that there's an independent user interface (aside from the Windows desktop) behind everything – the Metro UI – in w ...
  • Some totally healthy SUSY models
    Matthew W. Cahill-Rowley, JoAnne L. Hewett, Ahmed Ismail, and Thomas G. Rizzo have looked at millions of phenomenological MSSM models (to be explained later) and they have found some "totally ordinarily looking" models which are not fine-tuned, which have light superpartners, and which are co ...
  • Climate skepticism is just being born in Brazil
    Luis Dias from Brazil's former European headquarters kindly translates the essence of the video in the comments Rio de Janeiro has witnessed another preposterous environmentalist summit a few days ago. The only tangible outcome of Rio+20 was that Jesus Christ was forced to join the Green ...
  • TRF mobile template may be right for you
    In recent two weeks, the template of this blog has undergone a larger number of changes than it did in previous 3 or so years combined. What we have primarily changed is the provider of the comments. Instead of two commenting systems that have co-existed for 7 years – built-in Blogger.co ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
    Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Peanut Butter, Pajamas and Power
    By Heather White, chief of staff, Environmental Working Group My kids eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I'd like to admit. And in my line of work I hear about toxic chemicals daily so it takes a lot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  • "The EWG list of best sunscreens can't be beat ...
    Late last week, news outlets began reporting that the Federal Communications Commission was considering revising their cell phone radiation testing methods - for the first time in 15 years. Early this week, Governor Brown of California announced a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Join the Fight to Provide Healthy Food for Str ...
    By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...
  • "We need to stop this."
    Finding a nasty flame retardant in peanut butter and other food products brought EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder to tell E&E reporter Jeremy Jacobs: "We are contaminating our food chain with chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Injured divers appeal to Strasbourg
    They were pioneers in the earliest days of North Sea oil exploration but have paid a heavy price for their deep and dangerous dives in cold and turbulent seas. The group known as the North Sea Divers has long appealed for compensation for the injuries they suffered, and now they’re taking ...
  • Artist Nerdrum loses his appeal
    Odd Nerdrum, long considered one of Norway’s most talented artists, received an even longer jail sentence on Wednesday than the one he was appealing. Nerdrum, convicted of tax evasion, now faces two years and 10 months in prison. An appeals court in Oslo granted the lengthier term sought b ...
  • More Norwegians may train for terror
    Norway’s Justice Minister Grete Faremo says she can’t rule out that more Norwegians may have ties to terrorist training camps abroad. Norway’s police intelligence unit PST, which reports to Faremo, has confirmed, meanwhile, that they’ve been monitoring the movements of No ...
  • Immigrants to be issued new residence cards
    CORRECTED: Foreign citizens living in Norway will no longer get a sticker in their passports to indicate legal, permanent residence. Instead, reported newspaper Aftenposten, they’ll now be issued plastic cards that they must carry along with the passports when traveling abroad. All foreign ...
  • Three missing after fatal fishing trip
    One man was found drowned and three of his companions were still missing on Monday after their fishing trip in a small boat on a fjord in Hordaland County ended in tragedy. An extensive search for the three missing men was called off Sunday night. The four men were all from Poland, and reportedl ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Hope for a New Era: Before/After Examples of P ...
    If you aren’t in a reading mood, and/or just came to look at the before/after photographs, click here to jump down the page. Loess Plateau, Early September, 1995 Loess Plateau, Early September, 2009 Rio+20 has been and gone, and, in the big scheme of things, has achieved little, or w ...
  • Two Views of Our Future
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor will ours. Yet economists look at the future through a different lens. Relying heavily on economic data to measure progress, they see the near 10-fold growth in t ...
  • End of an Era
    So now what do we do to defend life on Earth? by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It is, perhaps, the greatest failure of collective leadership since the first world war. The Earth’s living systems are collapsing, and th ...
  • Raised Beds and Soil Rehab with Yard Waste
    Clean up Over the last two years, here in South West Pennsylvania, a snow and wind storm knocked down a few trees in the back yard. This provided both resources and opened up a nice hole in the canopy where I could put those resources to use. The first thing I wanted to do [...]
  • How “Sustainability” Became “Sustained Growth”
    Editor’s Preamble: In a prevous editorial life, I used to make a decent attempt at commentary for these large international events — those organised with some pretention towards shifting us onto a ’sustainable path — but I no longer have the energy for it. Pinning our hop ...

Pointman's

  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...
  • How environmentalism turned to the dark side.
    Over the best part of the last two decades, the twin delusions that we’re destroying the planet and that we have to completely restructure civilisation to somehow save it, have taken root and gripped the popular psyche of the West. The first notion had its origins in the early seventies, w ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s ...
    From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade:  Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen Monitors trained to engage oil industry and government representatives will be on hand at today’s oil lease auction. The goal of the newly formed Oil Monit ...
  • Celebrate Juneteenth
    A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance: Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of formalized slavery in the United States.  The date coincides with the last wave of notification of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, reaching e ...
  • Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Spa ...
    This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision: Dear friends and family,  With the fire at Women With A Vision now two weeks behind us, I wanted to reach out to each of you to thank you for your support.  Your donations, your efforts to publicize the arson through your n ...
  • Choice Of Weapons: A Commentary on Youth in Ne ...
    Sometimes Truth whispers conspiratorially; other times it gets naked in public. This was one of those times. On May 31, Truth painted an undeniably clear picture on the front page of section B of the Times Picayune. The article headlined “Frame by Frame” is a mini-feature on an event the day ...
  • Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta ...
    On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Let's see if yeti backs down or provides further arguments as we all want to watch this DOCU now Is yeti shillin again? uploading aj, come on?Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:19 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324660/bio Theo van Gogh More at IMDbPro » Date of Birth 23 July 1957, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Date of Death 2 November 2004, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (murdered by gunshot) Birth Name Theodoor van Gogh Trivia He is the great-great-grand ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I see Yeti uploads AJ very often now #justsayinStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:18 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Google reaches deal with anti-racism group over ‘Jew’ search suggestion Internet search giant Google has reached a deal under legal mediation with French anti-racism groups which objected to the search engine suggesting users add “Jew” to searches for prominent names. Both sides confirmed ...
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TVNZ

environment 360

  • BP Oil Spill Accelerated Erosion of Louisiana' ...
    The 2010 BP oil spill hastened the loss of Louisiana’s already fragile salt marshlands, a new study says. In a comparison of erosion rates at three healthy marsh sites and three areas affected by the oil spill, University of Florida scientists found that oil from the spill coated thick grasses o ...
  • Foreign ‘Land Grabs’ Scooping up Key Agricultu ...
    From 2000 to 2010, foreign investors bought or leased roughly 270,000 square miles of prime agricultural land, most of it in the developing world, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute. Half of the land was CIAT in Africa, acquired by investors from China, the Middle East, and ...
  • Mountain Forests in Southwest U.S. Failing to ...
    Mountain forests scorched by wildfires in the southwestern U.S. in recent years have failed to regenerate as forest ecosystems because of rising temperatures, decreased precipitation, and human intervention, according to a U.S. researcher. Speaking at an environmental conference this week in Col ...
  • Elevated Ozone Levels Trigger Heart Risks for ...
    Exposure to ozone at levels sometimes present in the world’s most polluted cities can trigger potentially dangerous changes to human cardiovascular systems, according to a new study. In a series of tests conducted Wikimedia Commons Mexico City smog on 23 healthy adults, scientists found evi ...
  • Birth of Sumatran Rhino Offers Hope for Endang ...
    Conservationists in Indonesia say a female Sumatran rhino gave birth to a healthy male calf at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, offering International Rhino Foundation Ratu new hope for one of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Following two miscarriages and a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders f ...
    By Frank Moher The cartoonist whose animated parody of an Enbridge ad was removed from the website of Vancouver’s The Province on Friday says the newspaper was told to take it down by a Postmedia executive, after Enbridge threatened to pull $1 million in ads from the company. “It was up fo ...
  • Exit, tap-dancing
    A BoB short: Canada doesn’t got “Canada’s Got Talent” any more. Rogers Media and Citytv have announced that the series will not return for a second season. “After careful consideration of all factors, including the current economic climate, Citytv has refocused its ...
  • TV’s new normal
    By Mark Leiren-Young “The DVD legitimized TV as an art form,” Glen Mazzara, executive producer of the monster smash “The Walking Dead,” told an audience of TV creators and broadcasters during an onstage Q&A at the Banff World Media Festival earlier this month. The DVD also change ...
  • Burlesque dancer teases B.C. censors
    A BoB short B.C. liquor laws have forced Miss Rosie Bitts, a Victoria-based burlesque dancer, to cancel her PG-13 show Shimmy Town. The performance was supposed to take place on June 29 at Svelte Cocktail Lounge in Victoria. The choreography included a kiss between Bitts, 37, whose real name is ...
  • Vancouver’s Province pulls animation sat ...
    A BoB short The Vancouver Province has pulled from its website an animation created by its editorial cartoonist, Dan Murphy, that satirizes Enbridge’s massive ad campaign in support of its Northern Gateway pipeline. In the original ad, Enbridge claims that the pipeline is “a path to ...

Daily Beast

  • The Miracle of R.A. Dickey
    With the Mets-Yankees game scheduled tonight, Allen Barra extols the brilliant season of pitcher Dickey.
  • Romney On The Dairy Farm: Prefers 1%?
    In front of federally subsidized cows, Romney reiterated his opposition to big-government spending. Wayne Barrett speaks to the cows’ owners, who say they dislike Obama even while they take government money.
  • History on Gay Marriage’s Side
    Marriage is not an unchanging institution—and gay unions have a long history, says Faramerz Dabhoiwala.
  • Gandhi Mystery Sets India Adrift
    With India’s economy faltering, questions about Sonia Gandhi’s future need resolving, says Bruce Riedel.
  • We Are All Penn State
    It wasn't just university leadership that enabled Jerry Sandusky. It was a system that discourages rocking the boat at all costs.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Panasonic to simplify management group as it m ...
    Panasonic Corp. will revamp its main management group to pare its size as it aims to shift away from its money-losing television business to more profitable batteries and solar cells. "We aim to make a v-shaped recovery, no matter what it takes," President Fumio Otsubo, 66, said Wednesday at t ...
  • Annan eyes Putin for Syrian settlement
    Kofi Annan must strike a deal with the devil to end the sickening atrocities being committed by the Syrian Army. But the devil Annan has in mind is Russian President Vladimir Putin, not his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad. That is what Annan, whom I first met in Africa four decades ago, seeks ...
  • Sportswear makers gearing up for Olympics
    With the London Olympics drawing near, Japanese sports apparel makers are racing to roll out T-shirts, swimwear and other items to show off for the world and enhance their presence in the global market. Mizuno Corp. began accepting preorders in February and March for replica T-shirts, jerseys ...
  • DJ Kentaro set to scratch a new itch
    Only a handful of artists can say they've reached the top of their trade, but Kentaro Okamoto is one of them. As DJ Kentaro, his record-scratching skills got him noticed by beat heads worldwide back in 2002, when he won the DMC World DJ Final in London. But, now this DJ wants an image change. ...
  • Amazon to launch Kindle in Japan
    Leading U.S. online retailer Amazon.com says it's ready to soon launch its Kindle electronic book reader in Japan. "We plan to launch the e-book device by the end of this year," an official at Amazon Japan said, declining further comment.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Freedom from Medicare and lower tuition days
    Well well, another misinformed tax freedom day has come and gone on June 12th.  To mark the occasion this year I wanted to skip over the very serious methodological flaws that others have pointed out, and take a look at several other items that Canadians are “free of” at various poin ...
  • CPI Deflates Case for Rate Hike
    Today’s report that the national inflation rate fell to 1.2% in May deflates calls for higher interest rates to reduce inflation. The central bank’s core rate was 1.8%, also below the 2% target. The other argument for an interest-rate hike was to moderate mortgage lending and the housing market. ...
  • Deflating Housing Bubble Risks Recession
    Seen in isolation,  Finance Minister Flaherty probably did the right thing yesterday in seeking to safely deflate the housing bubble and lower the dangerous growth of household credit to a record level as a share of household income. But he did it very late in the game, and risks tipping an alre ...
  • Clean electricity, conservation and a zero-car ...
    Today we released a new Climate Justice Project report, Clean Electricity, Conservation and Climate Justice in BC: Meeting our energy needs in a zero-carbon future, co-authored by John Calvert and myself. The report is central to the vision we have been developing of a zero-carbon BC, with a foc ...
  • Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary ...
    On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link. Points I raised in the address include the following: -Canada’s economy has been growing quite steadily over ...

ReDress

  • Hero on the run: Julian Assange and his US det ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be treated as a hero, not hunted as a criminal, because he has exposed US violations of domestic and international law, noting that if Assange had instead exposed the sins of Russia in Chechnya or China in Tibet, he would have ...
  • "Decent, honest and truthful"? How the pro-Isr ...
    Stuart Littlewood exposes the lies peddled by Israel's foreign pimps, most recently in a Wall Street Journal article by David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, and shows how Israeli public relations fail the simple test of decency, honesty and truthfulness.
  • US State Department betrays American citizens ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the corrupting influence of the Zionist lobbies in the USA has mean that American officials abroad routinely betray US citizens where Israel is involved.
  • Internet intrusion and increased repression in ...
    Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European Union tolerate the regime's flagrant violations of rights enshrined in domestic and international law.
  • Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea
    Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the military's privileged status, and Muhammad Morsi of the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Sydney desalination plant to be switched off
    The New South Wales Government has confirmed Sydney’s desalination plant will be shutting down at the end of the week, but has rejected suggestions the facility has been a waste of money. The plant cost $2 billion to build and has completed a two-year proving period, but will lie idle from ...
  • Gardener: Collecting rainwater
    We’ve discussed collecting and storing rainwater before, but let’s revisit the various aspects involved for the benefit of those who are merely curious about the practice or are in serious need of options due to drought and water-rationing. To that end, this column extensively incorp ...
  • Water in a changing world: Experimental waters ...
    “Six years and about 4,000 water samples later, an outdoor experimental watershed laboratory established by University of Delaware faculty members Shreeram Inamdar and Delphis Levia at Fair Hill, Md., is now producing valuable data and novel insights into how water and chemicals move throu ...
  • Alaska Glacier Studied For Clues On Water Supply
    “Anchorage is one of the few North American cities that depend on a glacier for most of their drinking water. The Eklutna glacier also provides some of the city’s electricity, through hydro power. So a team of researchers is working to answer a very important question: How long will ...
  • Desalination: Tell It To The DEC Judge
    “The Hudson Valley’s leading environmental organizations formally requested that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) hold a hearing to consider an industrial water desalination facility proposed by United Water for Haverstraw, Rockland County following advocac ...

D. Kucinich

  • The Fed “Twists” Again. Like it Did Last Summe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Federal Reserve announced it would commit $267 billion to continue Operation Twist, a program to keep long-term interest rates low. The program was named after the 1960’s song by Chubby Checker, a popular song du ...
  • House Oversight Committee Moves Legislation t ...
    After years of inaction and half steps, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee has finally taken bipartisan action to move forward legislation to authorize the Government Accountability Office to fully audit of the Federal Reserve (Fed). The Committee has passed legislation, H.R. 459, pav ...
  • Kucinich Stands in Solidarity with Postal Work ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today stood in solidarity with postal workers across America and with ten postal activists in particular as they begin a four-day hunger strike to protest Congress’s “starving” of the United States Postal Service through cuts to service and a 2006 Congressional ...
  • Kucinich Stands in Solidarity with Postal Work ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today stood in solidarity with postal workers across America and with ten postal activists as they begin a four-day hunger strike to protest Congress’s “starving” of the United States Postal Service through cuts to service and a 2006 Congressional mandate to pr ...
  • Kucinich Responds to Supreme Court Ruling “We ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today responded to a ruling by the Supreme Court reaffirming Citizens United and overturning a Montana limit on corporate campaign expenditures. Congressman Kucinich renewed his support for H. J. Res. 100, a constitutional amendment that would require all feder ...

Authentically Wired

  • Essential Medical Skills To Acquire
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • Down with Deadly Drones
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • …Better question…? Who has NOT bee ...
     www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conc ...
  • The truths and tales of Cuban healthcare
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...
  • Likely it will come about the result of yet an ...
    www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
    North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
  • The rarest rhino's last stand
    Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
  • Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
    Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
  • Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented f ...
    Aerial surveys of a remote area of rainforest along the Colombia-Brazil border have produced the first photographic evidence of uncontacted tribes, according to a conservation group that works to safeguard indigenous territories and culture. The photos, released by the Amazon Conservation Team ( ...
  • How a crippled rhino may save a species
    On December 18th, 2011, a female Sumatran rhino took a sudden plunge. Falling into a manmade pit trap, the rhino may have feared momentarily that her end had come, but vegetation cushioned her fall and the men that found her were keen on saving her, not killing her. Little did she know that cons ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Firm ready to go global on P lab detector
    An Auckland company is preparing to take its clever, methamphetamine lab-detecting technology to the world.The manufacturing process can be highly toxic and rental property owners have faced cleanup bills running into tens of thousands...
  • Sea levels set to rise further than expected
    But the northern part of the state as well as the coasts of Oregon and Washington could see less of an impact than the rest of the world because of shifts in the Earth that are causing the coasts there to rise, it said."The lower...
  • Kiwi breakthrough in search for life on Mars
    Martian lifeforms could be hiding under the surface of the Red Planet's atmosphere, according to ground-breaking research led by a New Zealand scientist.Canterbury University geologist Dr Christopher Oze believes evidence of life...
  • Kiwi scientist's team has breakthrough in moto ...
    A New Zealand professor is leading a team of scientists which has made a breakthrough in a global project to cure motor neuron disease.Professor Chris Shaw, formerly of Wellington, works with researchers at King's College in London...
  • Dairy industry ups the war against mastitis
    A new website has been launched to help tackle a disease which costs the New Zealand dairy industry around $280 million each year. Industry organisation DairyNZ has launched SmartSAMM , an onlin

The Bovine

  • Cosmetic use of milk goes way back
    From Hella Delicious: “…Cleopatra is renowned for being an incredibly beautiful woman, many people put this down to her habit of bathing in fermented mares’ milk and modern research has discovered the benefits of lactic acid on cleansing skin and … Continue reading →
  • Dissembling on Canadian food safety?
    From Jim Romahn, on Agri 007: “Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz misled the Senate when he was introducing a bill to update food inspection and safety earlier this year. He said several times that Canada compares favourably with other countries and … Continue reading →
  • Food Safety a growing concern in China
    From Mark McDonald in the New York Times: “HONG KONG — There’s mercury in the baby formula. Cabbages are sprayed with formaldehyde. Gelatin capsules for pills, tens of millions of them, are laced with chromium. Used cooking oil is scooped … Continue reading →
  • Summer Solstice / St. John’s day celebra ...
    From farmer Michael Schmidt: Year after year we celebrate solstice with a huge St. Johns fire, built from brush and trees and scrap wood collected over the las 12 months. It is part of a ongoing effort to reconnect to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt’s seeking dialog with CF ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Over nearly two decades of fighting for the right to access raw milk, Michael Schmidt has become legendary for his persistent promotion of dialog with reluctant regulators and politicians. He went … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Stockton CA Bankrupt; Unions (Not Housing Bust ...
    The city of Stockton, California, is Bankrupt. It has stopped making bond payments and will become the largest city in the US to seek protection via US bankruptcy law. The bankruptcy was inevitable. California law requires blame to be assessed. To be sure there is plenty of blame to go ...
  • Laugh of the Day: "No Risk of Housing Bust" sa ...
    "No Risk of Housing Bust" In case you need some humor today, please consider No risk of housing bust: RBA Australia is not at danger of a collapse in the housing market, a top central banker says, again playing down concerns that Australia could suffer price falls like those seen in th ...
  • Monti Lashes out at Germany; Merkel Hardens Po ...
    Merkel Hardens Position The EU summit is a day away and pre-summit bickering is so intense that it will be difficult if not impossible to get any major agreements. Two days ago, in a speech in German parliament, Bloomberg reported Merkel Hardens Resistance to Euro-Area Debt Sharing ...
  • Chris Martenson Discusses Shadow Bank Runs Wit ...
    Chris Martensen had a nice interview on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster today on shadow banking. Here is the link if embedded video does not play: Chris Martenson on Shadow Bank Runs and how Central Banks are Missing the Boat! I discussed the same topic earlier t ...
  • Spain Has Budget Deficit of 3.41% of GDP Throu ...
    Spain has reached it budget deficit target of 3.5% of GDP. The problem is, Spain did it in 5 months, not 12. Via Google translate, Spain has Budget Deficit 36.364 Billion Through May. The State had until May a deficit of 36.364 billion euros in national accounting terms, equivalent to 3.41 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #87- The Balochistan Nexus
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to discuss Balochistan, a region rich in oil reserves and mineral deposits in Southwest Asia bordering Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a nexus at which diametrically opposing strategic interests converge. He talks about US suppo ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 31, 2012
    BFP Nightly Quote “Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical an ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Welcomes New Partner Eric D ...
    “Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War” We are proud to announce the addition of a new partner to our team here at Boiling Frogs Post. Please welcome Eric Draitser: Eric Draitser- Partner Analyst & Producer Eric Draitser is an independent geopolitical analyst based in New York City. He is the ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    What is Anarchism? Anarchism is often thought of as synonymous with “chaos” and “disorder,” which is a far cry from its original philosophy and actions. As one of the first anarchist philosophers articulated, “Anarchy is Order.” Articulating a philosophy and e ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Shipping is Akin to 3D Poker
    - By Simmy Willemann Dr. Martin Stopford of Clarkson Research Services, economist and author of the renowned textbook Maritime Economics, compares shipping to a game of 3D poker. “Like poker,” he [...]
  • If the Fuel Lines Aren’t Completely Frozen, Yo ...
    DNV released this video the other day showing the technical details of how exactly an LNG-powered ship such as Eidesvik’s Viking Energy is refueled.  DNV notes that this video is not [...]
  • Shell’s Arctic Assets Set Sail for Alaska
    Two oil rigs and a flotilla of support vessels slated to commence exploratory drilling off Alaska’s North Slope have departed on their trip up north from Seattle shipyards. AIS data [...]
  • ExxonMobil: “We’re Losing Our Shirts”
    NEW YORK–Even energy titan Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) is showing signs of strain from low natural gas prices. On Wednesday Exxon Chief Executive Rex Tillerson broke from the previous company [...]
  • Can You Imagine Being Stuck Inside a Shipping ...
    **UPDATE** The latest word is that after exhaustive searching and x-rays of the containers on board, no stowaways were found by port authorities today in Newark, NJ. The following is [...]

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
    A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
  • Eyes vote no to space travel
    Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...
  • Happiness is in your Right Hand
    How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem to make people happier. In fact, the layout of letters on a keyboard may e...
  • Gut Bugs Promote Blood Vessel Growth
    The bacteria that live in your intestines change the way that blood vessels form inside your gut. New research, published in the journal Nature, identifies how this happens and offers potential ...
  • Corals that can clone
    Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way of cloning themselves too, Australian scientists have shown. Writing in Science, A...

Nick Turse

  • todaysdocument:A Shameless PlugOpening a bo ...
    todaysdocument: A Shameless Plug Opening a box of records in the Textual Research Room at Archives II, you expect to file folders stuffed with typed or handwritten documents. Sure, you’ll sometimes encounter log books, photos, and maps, but these are still paper-based records. You certainly do ...
  • life:Simmer down, turtles.Caption that acco ...
    life: Simmer down, turtles. Caption that accompanied this picture in the April 1, 1940, issue of LIFE: “Fighting turtles open their bills wide, lunge and dodge for minutes at a time. They do not snap their jaws until they clamp them tight in the final grip on other’s head.” See more photos ...
  • "It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot ...
    “It is said, Lewis Lapham tells us, that Abbot John Trithemius of Sponheim, a...
  • Krugman: Guess Who's Emerging From the Crisis? ...
    Krugman: Guess Who's Emerging From the Crisis? - NYTimes.com: sarahlee310: Iceland, of course....
  • pulitzercenter:Fighting the TB and HIV epide ...
    pulitzercenter: Fighting the TB and HIV epidemic in Tanzania: It is estimated that 60 percent of the population in Tanzania is infected with the TB bacteria, and the increasing number is mainly attributed to the HIV epidemic.
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